Geez what a Luddite! I vastly prefer them when I have a few items. But I’ve always assumed shoplifting is surely a big problem that significantly offsets any savings.
I'm going to miss the automated check-out machines at the grocery store and other places. They are, at least for me, way more convenient than having a person (most times with no smile and an attitude that they would like to be anywhere else but in a checkout stand) "helping" me. Maybe this affinity to automated checkout goes with my 40+ years in computer hardware and software - plus 5+ years of being a supermarket checkout person while working through college!!!!! Just say yes to automated checkouts - and not having anyone know I'm still buying hostess snoballs on occasion :-)
I wondered why I didn't like the automated checkout. I thought about it and decided that I missed the human contact. Bit by bit that is being taken away from us in so many ways.
Geez what a Luddite! I vastly prefer them when I have a few items. But I’ve always assumed shoplifting is surely a big problem that significantly offsets any savings.
I'm going to miss the automated check-out machines at the grocery store and other places. They are, at least for me, way more convenient than having a person (most times with no smile and an attitude that they would like to be anywhere else but in a checkout stand) "helping" me. Maybe this affinity to automated checkout goes with my 40+ years in computer hardware and software - plus 5+ years of being a supermarket checkout person while working through college!!!!! Just say yes to automated checkouts - and not having anyone know I'm still buying hostess snoballs on occasion :-)
Good points, Dan. And it is what you know.
I wondered why I didn't like the automated checkout. I thought about it and decided that I missed the human contact. Bit by bit that is being taken away from us in so many ways.
Agree.
I always check out where I can interact with a real person.
I did that for years, but after a while, you get used to the machines, which it turns out, don't deliver as promised.